Marcus Ericsson has confirmed ‘I am all fine’ and credits the safety standards in Formula 1 for being a🔴ble to walk away unharmed after his huge crash at the start of the second free practice session at ꦛMonza.

The Alfa Romeo Sauber driver appeared to suffer a mechanical fault with his DRS flap while under braking for Turn 1 at the end of the main straight which saw him spear﷽ into the left-hand side barriers which sent him fl💝ipping over in a nasty accident.

Ericss🎀on was able to ho🅠p out of his smashed Sauber unaided and following a trip to the medical centre was given the all-clear but sat out the remainder of FP2 with his car too badly damaged.

 

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Ericsson was seen in the Sauber hospitality unit and reported as okay with the Swiss team r🧸eleasing a video messag⛄e from the Swedish driver.

is feeling okay and looking forward to tomorrow.

— Sauber F1 Team (@SauberF1Team)

Sauber checked on team-mate Charles Leclerc’s DRS rear wing afte🀅r the accident before sending him back on the track for the remainder of FP2.

“It w♒as quite tricky obviously because we would arrive at ওthe end of the straight and we didn’t really know whether it would close or not,” Leclerc explained. “I had the same issue but I have been a bit luckier with it, it closed a bit earlier than Marcus.

“Then we found the issue, we resolved it but that required a bit of a sacrifice in performance. We know what to do for tomorrow to not have this problem and be at full performance so there’s still a bi🐎t of potential, and I think the rhythm was good today so it’s looking good for tomorrow. I think the main thing for today is Marcus is fine and looking at the crash it was not a given.”